Corn Free Diet
You are sensitive to foods containing corn, or derived from corn, and therefore should avoid the following:
| FOODS TO AVOID | ALTERNATIVES |
| Corn / Maize oil | Olive oil / sunflower oil |
| Margarines with corn oil (e.g Vitaquell) | |
| Cornflakes etc | |
| Corn snacks e.g tortilla chips | Rice, oat cakes |
| Corn bread | Rye bread |
| Corn flour | Wheat flour |
| Modified starch / food starch | |
| Sweetcorn | |
| Popcorn | |
| Glucose / Dextrose | Sucrose / Nutrasweet |
| Sorbitol (an artificial sweetener) | Cane / Beet sugar |
You also need to check the labels of the following foods as they may contain corn:
| CHECK LABELS | ALTERNATIVES |
| Beer | |
| Aspirin / other tablets | |
| Ready-made baking mixes | |
| Peanut butter | |
| Salad dressings | |
| Tinned beans and peas (e.g. Heinz Baked Beans) | |
| Packet / Tinned sauces | |
| Crisps | Organic Crisps |
| Instant teas | |
| Gravy mixes / cubes (e.g. Bovril) | |
| Imitation cream / quick whips | |
| Sausages | |
| Packet / tinned soups | |
| Biscuits | |
| Sweets | |
| Instant coffee |
Please note that any diets and dietary advice in the Patient Guidance section of our website are only intended for the patients attending our own clinics in Southampton and London. These diets are based on a recommendation made by one of the Centre doctors after an appropriate consultation. Our advice relating to use of a particular restricted diet is really only appropriate for individual patients who have consulted us and have been individually assessed by one of the doctors from the Centre and advised that they should follow a particular dietary regime. We do not recommend that people use restricted diets without proper medical supervision. We also recommend to our patients that they should not use a restricted diet for more than 6 weeks in the first instance without further consultation with us, as it may result in nutritional deficiencies. Sometimes food exclusion diets may be clinically effective in the long term, but their management will require a balanced nutritional approach.
We hope that visitors to our website who are not our patients will find much to interest them in this website; we aim to present useful, practical, considered and authoritative information on Complementary and Integrated Medicine. We strongly advise that you should not follow a restricted diet without proper medical supervision by a qualified practitioner.
